An employee of SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, tests a long-term evolution smartphone on South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo on April 12, 2013. SK Telecom plans to soon launch LTE services on the remote islets where a small South Korean police garrison is stationed against any possible violation of Korean waters by Japanese vessels. The Japanese government periodically claims the islets, inviting anti-Japan sentiments among Koreans who suffered from Japan’s atrocious colonial rule between 1910 and 1945. Japan took the Dokdo islets in 1905 when Tokyo deprived Seoul of its sovereign rights of diplomacy by force ahead of formal colonization.